Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid?

"" you can create a wonderful system easily besting systems at 10 times the price ""                
sure. I agree you CAN make a satisfying system, but you are totally fooling yourself that it is, IN FACT, as good as systems ten times the price. It may be JUST AS SATISFYING TO THE PERSON BUILDING IT... but it is not gonna be to the folks who 'know' what stuff can sound like. The statement is a way to convince yourself you can do it, I guess. Kind of like 'make your own "World Beater" cables. Yeah, sure, if you are lucky they will be as good as a pair of Mogami, but only if you get lucky. LOL

@elizabeth Spraketh thus:

 I agree you CAN make a satisfying system, but you are totally fooling yourself that it is, IN FACT, as good as systems ten times the price.

So we can infer your arguments are:

• Price always equals performance and quality
• The market is the ultimate arbiter of quality

I find these do not fit my own experience. In fact, I think that the pride of spending money is it's own biasing influence.  Unlike cars, 


Best,

E

Waste of time to debate it with someone of dubious experience.  :)

There are three types of wine tasters:

1. Those who don't know or care about differences. 
2. Those who are delight in buying $300 bottles of wine
3. Those who know what a $300 bottle of wine tastes like and buys a $30 that is just as good and delights in saving the $270. 

Not that this has anything at all to do with audio. :) 

Best,

E

douglas_schroeder
Waste of time to debate it with someone of dubious experience. 

I disagree. There are many ways to handle that sort of thing. For starters, you can always speak to “everyone else out there” and ignore the person who’s debating you. Works for me. 😬